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N=4 SYM Quantum Spectral Curve in BFKL regime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-03-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We review the applications of the Quantum Spectral Curve (QSC) method to the Regge (BFKL) limit in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. QSC, based on quantum integrability of the AdS5_5/CFT4_4 duality, was initially developed as a tool for the study of the spectrum of anomalous dimensions of local operators in the N=4 SYM in the planar, NcN_c\to\infty limit. We explain how to apply the QSC for the BFKL limit, which requires non-trivial analytic continuation in spin SS and extends the initial construction to non-local light-ray operators. We give a brief review of high precision non-perturbative numerical solutions and analytic perturbative data resulting from this approach. We also describe as a simple example of the QSC construction the leading order in the BFKL limit. We show that the QSC substantially simplifies in this limit and reduces to the Faddeev-Korchemsky Baxter equation for Q-functions. Finally, we review recent results for the Fishnet CFT, which carries a number of similarities with the Lipatov's integrable spin chain for interacting reggeized gluons.

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@article{arxiv.2003.03536,
  title  = {N=4 SYM Quantum Spectral Curve in BFKL regime},
  author = {Mikhail Alfimov and Nikolay Gromov and Vladimir Kazakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.03536},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Contribution to the memorial volume "From the past to the future - the legacy of Lev Lipatov", 28 pages, 7 figures; v2: references added, typos fixed

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